{"id":7255,"date":"2017-07-05T10:57:19","date_gmt":"2017-07-05T14:57:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/?p=7255"},"modified":"2017-07-05T10:57:19","modified_gmt":"2017-07-05T14:57:19","slug":"reasons-to-celebrate-world-news-briefs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/?p=7255","title":{"rendered":"Reasons to Celebrate | World News Briefs"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\"Vietnam\"<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

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Click on the image above for a new prayer video for Vietnam from Prayercast; related story below.<\/em><\/p>\n

In this issue: Reasons to celebrate
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  1. MIDDLE EAST: An Unscheduled Appointment<\/a><\/li>\n
  2. IRAQ: First-ever Sorani Kurdish Bible Published<\/a><\/li>\n
  3. VIETNAM: God Is on the Move<\/a><\/li>\n
  4. BURMA: Baptist Pastor Jailed for Spying Falls Ill<\/a><\/li>\n
  5. CENTRAL ASIA: Believers Standing Firm<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Greetings,<\/p>\n

    As I wrap up this batch of news I can hear distant fireworks as tomorrow is my nation\u2019s birthday. But actually, because I live 20 miles from Canada and get their radio stations, I know that our northern neighbor just turned 150 years old. That is a big deal! Someone had a great idea to celebrate with 150 murals made across the nation<\/a>. They are truly beautiful. I hope to visit Toronto this month. Maybe I can see one of these murals up close.<\/p>\n

    Two short videos challenged me on this eve of US Independence Day: Russell Moore on Whether America Is a Christian Nation<\/a> (The Gospel Coalition) and Do American Christians Love Muslims?<\/a> (Jihad of Love).<\/p>\n

    Some of our long-time readers may remember we shared this great flash mob celebration of Resurrection Sunday<\/a> in Budapest, Hungary in 2011. As the song says, \u201cFreedom was paid for on Calvary.\u201d Enjoy!<\/p>\n

    Pat<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

      Click on the image above for a new prayer video for Vietnam from Prayercast; related story below. In this issue: Reasons to celebrate MIDDLE EAST: An Unscheduled Appointment IRAQ: First-ever Sorani Kurdish Bible Published VIETNAM: God Is on the Move BURMA: Baptist Pastor Jailed for Spying Falls Ill CENTRAL ASIA: Believers Standing Firm Greetings, … Continue reading Reasons to Celebrate | World News Briefs<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-briefs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7255","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7255"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7255\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7257,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7255\/revisions\/7257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}